{"product_id":"back-o-cairns-by-ion-l-idriess","title":"Back O’ Cairns by Ion L. Idriess","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eBack O’ Cairns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eby Ion L. Idriess\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eAngus and Robertson, 1994\u003cbr\u003eLightly illustrated with maps, b\/w illustrated frontispiece and introductory maps\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e: Good\u003cbr\u003eSome edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with stickers and stamps to back endpapers, sticker to spine, some tears and creasing to covers and spine, some markings to introductory pages (see photographs)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“Ion Idriess, Australia’s favourite adventure writer, went to North Queensland prospecting at a time when the fabulous country ‘Back O’ Cairns was being opened up; when the great jungle scrubs were falling to the settler’s axe, and when new towns were springing up as mineral wealth was discovered and the new railway pushed inland.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIt was a time when the talk around the campfires was full of the exciting exploits of the great pathfinders – men like Mulligan, Doyle, Atherton and Palmerston – and of the search for a route from the coast to the hinterland, bound up with the rivalry of the three ports of Cardwell, Port Douglas and Cairns.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/search?q=Ion+Idriess\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" title=\"Ion Idriess\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eother copies of this title, and more from Ion Idriess\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44898409578566,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/BackOCairns_1.jpg?v=1776222520","url":"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/products\/back-o-cairns-by-ion-l-idriess","provider":"Morgan's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}